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Listeria Outbreak Update: 9 people sick in 3 states. 8 hospitalized and 1 died. Recall expanded. Do not eat any Clover Hill Dairy recalled cheese products, especially if you are at high risk for Listeria infection (pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system). View link for full recall details: https://t.co/EJ3Y3cOMLh

CDCgov's tweet photo. Listeria Outbreak Update: 9 people sick in 3 states. 8 hospitalized and 1 died.
Recall expanded. Do not eat any Clover Hill Dairy recalled cheese products, especially if you are at high risk for Listeria infection (pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system).
View link for full recall details: https://t.co/EJ3Y3cOMLh

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Salmonella Outbreak Update: 513 people sick, 134 hospitalized with 1 death, in 42 states and Puerto Rico from contact with backyard poultry. Backyard poultry can carry Salmonella germs that can make you sick. Take steps to keep yourself and your flock healthy. https://t.co/SEWmuR7BTg

CDCgov's tweet photo. Salmonella Outbreak Update: 513 people sick, 134 hospitalized with 1 death, in 42 states and Puerto Rico from contact with backyard poultry.

Backyard poultry can carry Salmonella germs that can make you sick. Take steps to keep yourself and your flock healthy.

https://t.co/SEWmuR7BTg

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Married, Demetrius, Michael & Jessica's mom, Nanna to Micaiah, Alexis, Kamil, Mikey, Brian, Malik, Jordan, & Alyssa Jade. Love to have fun and travel.

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As millions of fans travel across North America for the #FIFAWorldCup2026, CDC is working closely with state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal partners to monitor health threats and strengthen situational awareness throughout the tournament. Travelers and fans can access health and safety guidance through CDC’s Safety for Soccer Fans resources. Together, these efforts help promote a safe and healthy experience for everyone attending World Cup events. Learn more about what CDC is doing to prepare: https://t.co/3F3grpzZNM

CDCgov's tweet photo. As millions of fans travel across North America for the #FIFAWorldCup2026, CDC is working closely with state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal partners to monitor health threats and strengthen situational awareness throughout the tournament. Travelers and fans can access health and safety guidance through CDC’s Safety for Soccer Fans resources. Together, these efforts help promote a safe and healthy experience for everyone attending World Cup events. Learn more about what CDC is doing to prepare: https://t.co/3F3grpzZNM

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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children @NCMEC

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6 days ago

MISSING CHILD German's photo is shown age-progressed to 10 years. He was allegedly abducted by his mother, Yessica Robles-Salmeron, on June 23, 2021 from San Jose, California. German may also go by his middle name, Nehemias. Poster: https://t.co/vhoR27uJpg

NCMEC's tweet photo. MISSING CHILD
German's photo is shown age-progressed to 10 years. He was allegedly abducted by his mother, Yessica Robles-Salmeron, on June 23, 2021 from San Jose, California. German may also go by his middle name, Nehemias.
Poster: https://t.co/vhoR27uJpg https://t.co/29asrVjp8O

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philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

7 days ago

A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it ⁠had removed from parks and monuments nationwide https://t.co/pJHc9dGTCF

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New infant botulism outbreak linked to infant formula. If your infant was fed Nara Organics infant formula and has any of these symptoms, seek health care immediately: poor feeding, loss of head control, difficulty swallowing, decreased facial expression. More info: https://t.co/jfdsfZJW7q

CDCgov's tweet photo. New infant botulism outbreak linked to infant formula.
If your infant was fed Nara Organics infant formula and has any of these symptoms, seek health care immediately: poor feeding, loss of head control, difficulty swallowing, decreased facial expression. More info: https://t.co/jfdsfZJW7q

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@GaBBYBows So pretty!

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@BethMooreLPM Congratulations Jackson!!🫡

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Listeria Outbreak: 8 people sick in 3 states. 7 hospitalized and 1 died. Do not eat recalled requesón/soft ricotta cheese, especially if you are at high risk for Listeria infection (pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system). View link for full recall details: https://t.co/EJ3Y3cOMLh

CDCgov's tweet photo. Listeria Outbreak: 8 people sick in 3 states. 7 hospitalized and 1 died.
Do not eat recalled requesón/soft ricotta cheese, especially if you are at high risk for Listeria infection (pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system).
View link for full recall details:
https://t.co/EJ3Y3cOMLh

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South Aiken High School @SouthAiken

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@Simi_2210_ Skin

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SouthAiken's tweet photo. https://t.co/irWqeOLhK7

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13 days ago

Target recalls baby wipes after FDA testing finds potentially deadly bacteria https://t.co/yPltxcdY0c

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Jen

@jenteach13

13 days ago

You want to fix education? Fix #4: Let teachers remove disruptive students. Let me break down Fix #4. This is the fix that makes people uncomfortable because it sounds like giving up on a child. It is not. It is recognizing that a classroom is not a one-person environment and that what we allow one student to do to thirty others is a choice with consequences for every kid in that room. The student who flips desks, screams at the teacher, refuses every redirection, and makes it impossible for anyone else to focus is not being served by staying. Neither is anyone around him. Keeping him in the room does not help him. It just makes sure everyone loses together. What does it mean in practice? It means a teacher has the authority to remove a student who is actively disrupting the learning of everyone else without having to justify it to three administrators, fill out four forms, and wait for a response that may never come. It means the removed student goes somewhere with an adult who can address what is actually happening with him, not to a hallway to sit unsupervised until the period ends. It means the thirty students who were trying to learn get the class back. It means the teacher does not have to choose between managing one student's behavior and teaching everyone else, because right now that choice is made for her every single day, and it never goes in the classroom's favor. How does this help kids? Every minute spent managing a student who has refused every available intervention is a minute not spent teaching. Multiply that by a class period. Multiply that by a semester. The kids who came ready to learn, who needed that instruction, who deserved that teacher's full attention, paid for every one of those minutes with their education. We talk endlessly about the student being removed. We rarely talk about the thirty who stayed and what they lost. They matter too. Their time matters too. Their right to learn in a room where learning is possible matters too. How do we make this happen? We need discipline policies that give teachers real authority instead of the appearance of authority. We need administrators who back removal decisions instead of sending the student right back to the same room twenty minutes later with no intervention in between. We need alternative settings that are staffed and resourced to actually address what is driving the behavior, because removal without support is not a solution. It is a delay. We need to stop treating every removal as a civil rights violation and start treating the disruption of thirty students' education as one, too. And we need to be honest about what the current system communicates to every student in that room when nothing happens. It tells them that the adults are not in charge. Once they know that, you have lost the room. The goal is not to discard any child. The goal is to make sure that getting help for one student does not come at the cost of an education for thirty others. You want to fix education? #YouWantToFixEducation

jenteach13's tweet photo. You want to fix education?

Fix #4: Let teachers remove disruptive students.

Let me break down Fix #4.
This is the fix that makes people uncomfortable because it sounds like giving up on a child. It is not. It is recognizing that a classroom is not a one-person environment and that what we allow one student to do to thirty others is a choice with consequences for every kid in that room. The student who flips desks, screams at the teacher, refuses every redirection, and makes it impossible for anyone else to focus is not being served by staying. Neither is anyone around him. Keeping him in the room does not help him. It just makes sure everyone loses together.

What does it mean in practice?
It means a teacher has the authority to remove a student who is actively disrupting the learning of everyone else without having to justify it to three administrators, fill out four forms, and wait for a response that may never come. It means the removed student goes somewhere with an adult who can address what is actually happening with him, not to a hallway to sit unsupervised until the period ends. It means the thirty students who were trying to learn get the class back. It means the teacher does not have to choose between managing one student's behavior and teaching everyone else, because right now that choice is made for her every single day, and it never goes in the classroom's favor.

How does this help kids?
Every minute spent managing a student who has refused every available intervention is a minute not spent teaching. Multiply that by a class period. Multiply that by a semester. The kids who came ready to learn, who needed that instruction, who deserved that teacher's full attention, paid for every one of those minutes with their education. We talk endlessly about the student being removed. We rarely talk about the thirty who stayed and what they lost. They matter too. Their time matters too. Their right to learn in a room where learning is possible matters too.

How do we make this happen?
We need discipline policies that give teachers real authority instead of the appearance of authority. We need administrators who back removal decisions instead of sending the student right back to the same room twenty minutes later with no intervention in between. We need alternative settings that are staffed and resourced to actually address what is driving the behavior, because removal without support is not a solution. It is a delay. We need to stop treating every removal as a civil rights violation and start treating the disruption of thirty students' education as one, too. And we need to be honest about what the current system communicates to every student in that room when nothing happens. It tells them that the adults are not in charge. Once they know that, you have lost the room.

The goal is not to discard any child. The goal is to make sure that getting help for one student does not come at the cost of an education for thirty others.
You want to fix education?

#YouWantToFixEducation

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FDLE

@fdlepio

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🚨 Please Share! 🚨 - A Florida MISSING CHILD Alert has been issued for Rashaud Dixon, a black male, 16 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 120 pounds, black hair and brown eyes, last seen in the area of the 2600 block of Southeast 12th Road in Homestead, Florida. He may have traveled to the Florida City, Florida area. If you have any information on the whereabouts of this child please contact the Homestead Police Department at 305-247-1535 or 911.

fdlepio's tweet photo. 🚨 Please Share! 🚨 -
A Florida MISSING CHILD Alert has been issued for Rashaud Dixon, a black male, 16 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 120 pounds, black hair and brown eyes, last seen in the area of the 2600 block of Southeast 12th Road in Homestead, Florida. He may have traveled to the Florida City, Florida area. If you have any information on the whereabouts of this child please contact the Homestead Police Department at 305-247-1535 or 911.

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